I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

The latest website: After winning the crucial battle with Manchester City, the Manchester United team took a plane that night and rushed to the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East to prepare for the semi-finals of the Club World Cup three days later.

However, Ye Su did not go to the Middle East with the team, but flew to Nyon, Switzerland first. The Champions League round of 16 draw will be held at noon the next day. Ye Su will attend the round of 16 draw as a representative of Manchester United.

In this season's Champions League group stage, the Premier League top five can be said to dominate the Champions League. All five teams advanced to the knockout stage as the first in the group. The result of this is that the Premier League teams basically do not need to consider any avoidance principles in the Champions League, that is, avoid the second-advanced team in this group.

However, among the teams that advanced to the top 16 with the second place in the group, there are also super giants. For example, the Galacticos Real Madrid, Ronaldo's team performed poorly during the group stage and was overwhelmed by Tottenham. Another example is Bayern Munich, the king of the south, and Juventus, the old woman. The former was squeezed to second place in the group by Paris, and the latter was crushed by Messi's Barcelona.

Marchetti, director of UEFA's competition department, presided over the draw, and two-time champion Xavi Alonso was the guest of honor. The principle of the lottery is that the first in the group will play against the second in other groups, but the teams of the same football association must avoid it. The second-placed team in the group stage will play at home first.

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Manchester United qualified first in the group. Due to the principle of avoiding the same group and the same country, Manchester United could not draw to Rome. So the Red Devils originally had 7 potential opponents, namely Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Sevilla, Miners, Basel and Porto. In the end, Manchester United successfully avoided the three powerful enemies of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Juventus.

The remaining four potential opponents are very close in strength. Considering that the February expedition to Shakhtar Donetsk should be regarded as the most difficult away game, Manchester United also successfully avoided this opponent.

In fact, the most ideal situation, of course, is to draw Basel or Porto, two non-big five league teams. However, getting Sevilla in the end can also be regarded as a lottery.

Manchester United didn't have many matches with Sevilla originally, but in recent seasons, the number of encounters between the two sides has suddenly increased.

In the 2014-2015 season, the two sides met in the Europa League semi-finals; at the beginning of the 2016-2017 season, the two sides met again in the European Super Cup, and then fell in love and killed each other in the round of sixteen.

This season, the two sides have been paired together again in the Champions League round of 16. This is already the sixth time the two sides have played against each other in the past three years.

Many fans ridiculed that this is a duel between the Champions League overlord and the Europa League overlord. Manchester United won the Champions League in the first two seasons, while Sevilla won the Europa League twice in the past four seasons.

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The two years when Sevilla failed to win the championship, one was when they lost to Manchester United in the semi-finals of the 2014-2015 season, and the other was when they participated in the Champions League last season. The round was eliminated with a big score of 7:2.

Eliminated by Manchester United three times in a row, Manchester United is already the de facto sufferer of Sevilla, and Sevilla is already a little afraid of meeting Manchester United.

Some third-party fans ridiculed Sevilla. In fact, they should compete for third place in the Champions League group stage, and then continue to dominate the Europa League.

Now that they have worked so hard to break into the Champions League knockout round, and encounter a super strong enemy like Manchester United, they are likely to have another round of the Champions League knockout round.

And Manchester United, as the first defending team after the restructuring of the Champions League, they are still one of the favorites to win the Champions League this season. Now they are facing Sevilla, who performed mediocre in the Champions League, and they are taking another step towards the three consecutive Champions League titles!

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In fact, Manchester United is not the only Premier League team that has drawn a good lottery. Their city rival Manchester City is also lucky. They got the Swiss team Basel. In terms of the strength of Manchester City and the state of this season, this is undoubtedly a top pick.

In fact, according to the principle of avoidance in the same group and avoidance of teams in the same country, among the unseeded teams, Manchester City may encounter the three super giants Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Juventus. Compared with these three "bombs", in addition The four teams (miners avoiding the same group in the group stage are Sevilla, Basel, Porto and Roma are relatively easy to play, and the most ideal "soft persimmon" is Basel.

Unexpectedly, the lottery was actually drawn by Blue Moon.

This is the fifth time for Manchester City to enter the Champions League knockout round. In the 2013-2014 season, Manchester City entered the Champions League knockout round for the first time. In the round of 16, they drew the "cosmic team" Barcelona. With Manchester City's strength and experience in the Champions League at the time, it was natural that they could not compete with Barcelona. Contested, the total score of the two rounds was 1:4 and was eliminated.

Unfortunately, in the 2014-2015 season, Manchester City met Barcelona again in the Champions League round of 16 and was eliminated again.

Having met Barcelona for two consecutive seasons, Manchester City's luck is really bad.

When the time came to the 2015-2016 season, Manchester City ushered in good luck. Blue Moon drew Dynamo Kiev in the knockout round, and after a smooth pass, they beat Paris Saint-Germain and entered the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Manchester City lost to Real Madrid.

Reaching the semi-finals is also Manchester City's best Champions League result so far.

Last season, because Manchester City only finished fifth in the Premier League the previous season, Guardiola could only play in the Europa League after coming to the Premier League.

However, this also allowed Blue Moon to win the European trophy again after winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970. And because of this Europa League champion, Guardiola was able to appear in the Champions League when he only finished fifth in the Premier League again.

As soon as the result of tonight's draw comes out, I believe that everyone in the Manchester City club, including Manchester City fans, will breathe a sigh of relief.

Compared with Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Juventus, even compared with Porto and Sevilla, getting Basel is a result that couldn't be better.

Among the other three Premier League teams, Chelsea also got a good draw. The opponent is Shakhtar Donetsk. Liverpool's luck is also not bad. They played against Porto in Portugal. Only Tottenham are more sad. Tooth.

The other three matchups are Barcelona vs. Roma, Real Madrid vs. Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich vs. Besiktas.

Although Bayern Munich was squeezed to the second place in the group by Paris Saint-Germain in the group stage, they did not expect to be able to mention Besiktas, the biggest gift package in the round of 16. On the contrary, Paris Saint-Germain, who worked so hard to win the first place in the group, suffered a bitter encounter with Real Madrid, the No. 1 giant in the Champions League.

Luck is really hard to guess!

As for Barcelona, ​​Cosmos fans think they've got a big draw too.

Although Roma is a Serie A team, they performed very poorly during the group stage. In the end, Manchester United defeated Atletico Madrid before they were lucky enough to advance to the knockout round.